On Wednesday, December 3, more than 500 guests attended the fourth annual Dubin Breast Center Gala at the Mandarin Oriental, New York, raising more than $2.175 million to support the Center. The evening’s presenting sponsor was Harry Winston, Inc.
Among the guests were Mount Sinai Health System Trustees Eva Andersson-Dubin, MD, and Glenn Dubin, who co-founded the Center, which is part of The Tisch Cancer Institute; and Elisa Port, MD, FACS, Chief of Breast Surgery and the Center’s Co-Director. The event’s honorees included: Ira Bleiweiss, MD, Professor, The Lillian and Henry M. Stratton-Hans Popper Department of Pathology and the Department of Oncological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Chief, Surgical Pathology and Director, Division of Breast Pathology, The Mount Sinai Hospital; Christina Weltz, MD, Assistant Professor, The Ruth J. & Maxwell Hauser and Harriet & Arthur H. Aufses, Jr., MD Department of Surgery (Surgical Oncology), Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; and philanthropists, donors, and fine arts photographer Gary Wexler and his wife Nina.
Kenneth L. Davis, MD, Chief Executive Officer and President of the Mount Sinai Health System, offered remarks and introduced Charles Shapiro, MD, who recently joined Mount Sinai as Co-Director of the Dubin Breast Center, Director of Translational Breast Cancer Research for the Mount Sinai Health System, and Director of Survivorship Programs at The Tisch Cancer Institute.